Load Balancing Contracts in Berkshire

Load Balancing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Load Balancing over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 111 113
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Load Balancing 6 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.37% 0.45% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.49% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 14
10th Percentile - £576 £452
25th Percentile - £616 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £675 £655
Median % change year-on-year -48.15% +3.05% +18.02%
75th Percentile - £703 £695
90th Percentile - £709 £707
South East median daily rate £513 £595 £575
% change year-on-year -13.87% +3.48% +11.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Load Balancing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,419 1,626 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 88.63% 90.48% 89.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 760 996 1,292
10th Percentile £325 £249 £307
25th Percentile £425 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% +3.25% +5.93%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £511 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.70% +1.46% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 70 28
10th Percentile £19.34 £18.95 £20.18
25th Percentile £41.25 £45.21 £21.00
Median hourly rate £58.49 £61.45 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +21.68% +117.20%
75th Percentile £63.41 £72.25 £77.44
90th Percentile £75.13 £77.27 £96.63
South East median hourly rate £58.30 £52.30 £37.13
% change year-on-year +11.47% +40.86% +35.02%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in Berkshire

Load Balancing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Load Balancing in Berkshire

Load Balancing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Load Balancing in Berkshire

Load Balancing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -2 3 - -
Wokingham - 3 £350 -
Load Balancing
South East

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure App Service
2 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Google Compute Engine
2 2 (33.33%) IaaS
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) 4G
2 1 (16.67%) 5G
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) IPv6
2 1 (16.67%) OSPF
2 1 (16.67%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (50.00%) Publishing
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Presales Solution Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Task Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Change Management
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Batch Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (16.67%) Presales
4 1 (16.67%) Runbook
4 1 (16.67%) Security Patching
4 1 (16.67%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Google